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[[File: | [[File:Samuel Mathers.png|350px|thumb|Samuel Mathers depicted as the Page of Pentacles in the [[Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen Tarot]]]] | ||
'''Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor Mathers''' (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), born '''Samuel Liddell Mathers''', was a British [[occultist]]. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], a [[ritual magic|ceremonial magic]] order of which offshoots still exist. He became so synonymous with the order that Golden Dawn scholar [[Israel Regardie]] observed in retrospect that "the Golden Dawn ''was'' MacGregor Mathers." | '''Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor Mathers''' (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), born '''Samuel Liddell Mathers''', was a British [[occultist]]. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], a [[ritual magic|ceremonial magic]] order of which offshoots still exist. He became so synonymous with the order that Golden Dawn scholar [[Israel Regardie]] observed in retrospect that "the Golden Dawn ''was'' MacGregor Mathers." | ||
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==Published works== | ==Published works== | ||
[[File: | [[File:SL-Mathers.jpg|350px|thumb|Mathers in Egyptian garb during a magic ritual]] | ||
Mathers was a polyglot; among the languages he had studied were English, French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Gaelic and Coptic, though he had a greater command of some languages than of others. | Mathers was a polyglot; among the languages he had studied were English, French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Gaelic and Coptic, though he had a greater command of some languages than of others. | ||